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Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality: The Refiguration of Spaces as Today’s Challenge for Cities

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The author is going to show that spatial construction, at both the global and urban scale, will be transformed fundamentally. Space is the medium in which the transformation of society is taking place. Martina Löw argues that since the 1960s we have witnessed a refiguration of social spaces, which is often experienced as uncertainty leading to conflicts and tensions in many societies. She describes forms and effects of spatial refigurations, starting with the spatial transformations at the beginning of modernity, followed by radical changes in the late modern era. Her focus is on the transformation of spatial structures and spatial knowledge in urban contexts, aiming to show that social uncertainty is more often than not a function of spatial uncertainty.

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This publication was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG as part of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces”. The article presents preliminary findings and theoretical basics developed in joint interdisciplinary project work.

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Löw, M. (2020). Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality: The Refiguration of Spaces as Today’s Challenge for Cities. In: Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M., Pereira, P., Guarino, L., Kurtenbach, S., Villalón, J. (eds) Inequality and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9162-1_2

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